The impact of a multimodal education strategy (the DeTER program) on nurses' recognition and response to deteriorating patients

Nurses are ideally positioned to recognise and respond to patient deterioration. However, premonitory signs of patient deterioration are often overlooked, not managed, or not communicated in a timely fashion. Education programs aimed at improving nurses' technical and non-technical skills have been developed, however, the outcomes of these educational strategies remain unclear.A quasi-experimental time series design was used in this study to evaluate the impact of a multi-modal education program (DeTER) on acute care nurses' technical and non-technical skill development and recognition and response to patient deterioration.
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - Category: Nursing Authors: Tags: Original research Source Type: research